Closed Primaries Attract Very Few
Voters or Poll Workers!! About 70% have no vote in choosing Candidates?
Every State!! So 99% Feel Little Connection to Elections or to The Elected!

Open Ballot Access
and Equal Political Speech

Interim
Acting Chair of the Jefferson County KYIVA

Tomorrow
is Primary Election Day in Kentucky, May 21, 2019. A sad day, with a very low 12%
voter turnout expected. No one is excited about being poll workers
either, 13 hours work for $200.00. The Primary is 45 Republican
Poll workers short in Jefferson County, with 25 calling in to cancel working
in the polls for the Republican Party during the few weeks before the
election. The Board of Elections is considering an emergency Poll
Worker Training to get enough people trained to work the primaries this
year.

Very sad indeed. I am registered
as an Independent, so have no voice in either closed D or R Primary Election.
My brother is registered as an R, but would much rather have a voice in
choosing the D opponent to Governor Bevis and Butthead (Bevin), who my
brother and I hate for all his radical positions on issues. In the
General Election my brother and I will vote for anyone but Governor
Butthead (Bevin). For me, I may vote for the Libertarian if he is on the
Primary Ballot. I will print up the ballot tomorrow to see if my brother
or I have any reason to go vote. Like 88% of voters, we are somewhat
likely to not waste our time on voting. An establishment D, or an
establishment R who supports Donald Trump, who we both disrespect, give
us no choice. Why bother. I have a non-establishment favorite in the
Democratic Primary. But I cannot vote in that primary.

Freedom of Choice Blocked: In Kentucky all
registered voters are stuck
in the party they chose in the previous year. No party changes are allowed
during the current election year. Most voters dislike both parties, but
are forced to choose D or R if they want to have a vote in at least one
of the two primaries allowed in the state. KY law severely restricts
voter choices to give complete control and power to the two parties that
99% of the voters do not trust. Little wonder the Closed Primaries
attract so few voters and Poll Workers. We are in the habit of not being
involved in closed partisan elections. 70% of eligible voters are not
registered D or R. Very few want to give full support to either D or R
Party. We would much rather vote in every Primary and General Election
that is on the ballot. We want totally Open Elections with no partisan
restrictions. When Primary Elections allow every eligible voter to vote we will have
a reason to vote. We will attract candidates who better represent the
interests of the 99%. Our votes will then count and we will vote in
every election. For now, our elections are sadly unrepresentative.
Solution: open all KY Primary Elections
to every eligible voter. We could have Open Primaries in all fifty states
to give all voters a voice in elections.

If you work the Primary Election polls now, too
many workers are processing too few voters, with over half of the time
spent doing nothing. (General Election turnout is usually not much
better.) Every candidate on the General Election Ballot in November is
chosen by these pitiful unrepresentative Primary Elections. A majority of eligible voters
do not elect any candidate in Primary or General Elections. Our
elections are extremely undemocratic.
Voters have no power in our elections. No Voice!! In all fifty states!!
Your state included!!

Numbers for voter turnout in
Primaries are similar in all fifty states, for much the same reasons.
D's and R's do not represent us, the 99%. The people know they are not
represented. This is the complete reason for Voter Apathy.

The 99% have not had their interests represented
since the Great Depression under President Franklin D. Roosevelt
in the long ago 1930s. We know. So we don't vote. There are no real
choices so General
Elections are
decided by random unmotivated 50% chance, by frustrated "lesser of two
evils" registered voter choices. Wall
Street Billionaires control both political parties, undemocratic
elections, and public policy. “We must become proactive good citizens to
have a voice in public policy.” Occupy
Elections - Everybody Vote!

We
must take power from the D and R parties to have open elections so all
voters have a reason to vote. Elect populist candidates we put on the
ballot to defeat establishment D and R candidates. Occupy Elections - Everybody Vote! “We must become proactive good
citizens to have a voice in public policy.”
Take the pledge
.

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